Anthropocene and Asia: Investigation, Critique, and Contribution from the Environmental Humanities Perspective (Jinshinse wo tou: Kankyo, jinbun ajia no shiten)

• Edited by Masahiro Terada and Daniel Niles
• Translated by Masahiro Terada
• Kyoto University Press, March, 2021 （⇒ Publisher's HP）
• 494 pages, four color plates, Hardcover, 5,700 yen + tax
• ISBN: 978-4-8140-0317-4

In Japanese with English summary

How can be the Anthropocene perceived and discussed from stand point of Asia? This book explores the idea of the Anthropocene as seen from the area. As a product of modern science, the Anthropocene concept must be associated with the values and institutions of modern Western civilization. Though we all live in a modern, globalized world, the historical values and institutions of Asia—the Earth’s largest and most populous continent—are quite diverse in themselves and different from those of the West. At the root of these differences are different conceptualizations of, and attitudes toward, nature. We consider how such different traditions of thought and practice might affect the meaning of the Anthropocene in our globalized times.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
   The Emergence of the Anthropocene: The Anthropocene Concept and the Earth System Science Global Research Network

Masahiro Terada (RHIN) and Daniel Niles (RIHN)

2. Column 1 [Focus]
   Six Questions on the Anthropocene

Masahiro Terada and Daniel Niles<

3. Part I Regime and Governance
4. Chapter 1
   Monsoon Asian, Intra-Regional Trade and Fossil Fuel-Driven Industrialization

Kaoru Sugihara (RIHN)

5. Chapter 2
   Digital Control and the Earth Ecosystem
   Will the Governance of the Anthropocene Be Designed in East Asia?

Stéphane Grumbach (National Institute for Research in Digital Science and Technology, France)

6. Chapter 3
   The Anthropocene and Material Hermeneutics
   Humanities on the Ground in Thailand

Soraj Hongladarom (Chulalongkorn University, Thailand)

7. Part Ⅱ Sense and Experience
8. Chapter 4
   The Charcoal Forest: Ecology, Aesthetics, and the Anthropocene

Daniel Niles

9. Chapter 5
   First, To Love the Volcano
   Forming Geological Kinships in Japan

Emily Sekine (SAPIENS, USA)

10. Chapter 6
    Retrieving Earthliness
    Philosophy and Practice of Natural Farming in Japan

Augustin Berque (École des hautes études en sciences sociales, France)

11. Column 2 [Dialogue]
    The Material Order

Daniel Niles and Sander van der Leeuw (AAAS, USA)

12. Part Ⅲ History and Historicity
13. Chapter 7
    Carbon Forests and Rivers of Conflict
    Writing South Asian Environmental History in the Epoch of the Anthropocene

Rohan D’Souza (Kyoto University, Japan)

14. Chapter 8
    Natural Force and Historical Force
    Physical and Metaphysical Dynamics of Change, Motion, and Becoming Embedded in the Anthropocene Concept

Masahiro Terada

15. Column 3 [Voice]
    Whose?
    Question from Africa / A Poem

Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga (MIT, USA)

16. Part Ⅳ Knowledge and Epistemology
17. Chapter 9
    Global History of Science as a Knowledge Resource for the Anthropocene

Matthias Schemmel (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Germany)

18. Chapter 10
    Finding Common Ground
    The Experiment of the Anthropocene Curriculum Project.

Christoph Rosol (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Germany / Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Germany)

Biosphere reserves: Nature conservation fostered by practices in local communities

• Edited by MATSUDA Hiroyuki, SATO Tetsu and YUMOTO Takakazu
• Kyoto University Press
• March 31, 2019
• 350 pages, Hardcover, 4,400 yen + tax
• ISBN: 978-4-8140-0205-4

Crossing World Beyond Nature and Culture: Dialogue with Philippe Descola

• Edited by AKIMICHI Tomoya
• Kyoto University Press, March 30, 2018 （⇒ Publisher's HP）
• 432 pages, Hardcover, 4,900 yen + tax
• ISBN: 978-4-8140-0147-7

Mondes entrecroisés par-delà nature et culture – dialogue avec Philippe Descola

Table des matières

1. Avant-propos

i

Ken’itchi Abé

Président du comité éditorial de la collection « Sciences de l’homme et de l’environnement et les régions »

Professeur à l’Institut de recherche pour l’humanité et la nature

2. Préface

iii

Tomoya Akimichi

3. Introduction Déconstruction du savoir en sciences humaines – pour une révolution de la reconnaissance du monde

1

Tomoya Akimichi

4. Ière PARTIE : La Nature se vengera-elle des êtres humains ?
5. I　　Les proies bienveillantes – Le traitement du gibier dans la chasse amazonienne

45

Philippe Descola

6. Ch. 1　　La baleine et l’homme – Autopsie de la vision de la nature chez les Japonais

77

Tomoya Akimichi

7. Ch. 2　　La figurologie de l’homme-oiseau – Déguisement et métamorphose

113

Tomoya Akimichi

8. IIème PARTIE : La Nature est-elle amie de l’homme ?
9. II　　Le sauvage et le domestique

155

Philippe Descola

10. Ch. 3　　Paturage et reconnaissance du monde – Relations entre l’homme et l’animal dans les sociétés pasteurs de l’Afrique de l’Est

193

Itsuhiro Hazama

11. Ch. 4　　Sur les animaux expérimentaux et la « Nature » dans la neurophysiologie

221

Mitsuho Ikeda

12. IIIème PARTIE : La Nature a-elle son identité subjective ?
13. III　　A qui appartient la nature ?

249

Philippe Descola

14. Ch. 5　　La théorie de l’animisme selon Ph. Descola : l’histoire de l’esprit humain et son passage schématique en forme d’un « Z » inversé

265

Hitoshi Yamada

15. Ch. 6　　Nature et identité subjective

287

Augustin Berque

16. IVème PARTIE : La Nature franchit-elle ses frontières ?
17. IV　　La Fabrique des images

305

Philippe Descola

18. Ch. 7　　Représentations de la nature et la culture révélées dans les masques

333

Kenji Yoshida

19. Ch. 8　　La portée théorique de l’« anthropologie de la figuration »

365

Daisuke Shimoyama

20. Epilogue Un horizon découvert par la déconstruction de la nature et la culture

395

Tomoya Akimichi

21. Postface

419

Tomoya Akimichi

22. Index

428

Catastrophe and Time
Memory, Narrative, and the Energeia of History

• By TERADA Masahiro
• Kyoto University Press, March 30, 2018 （⇒ Publisher's HP）
• 888 pages, Hardcover, 9,200 yen + tax
• ISBN: 978-4-8140-0151-4
• In Japanese with English summary

By narrating the event, human being make past present, and at the same time, by doing so it make present past. Especially to those who encounter the catastrophe this dimension of time and narrative is crucial because humanity is a creature of narrating the event. How is it possible and how did this species do so? Focusing on the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake in 1995, the 3.11 Tohoku triple catastrophe in 2011, both happened in Japan, and other natural and man-made disasters including war and the Holocaust (the Shoah), the author Masahiro Terada, historian and “meta-historian” of human-nature relationship, investigates the way how the catastrophe passes across time from present to past and from past to present in museums, at memorials, and on the sites of place of memory. This is an inquiry into the modality of Anthropocenic response to one of the dramatic changes of the Earth.

Table of Contents

1. Prologue. Namazue Catfish Print and Presentism
2. Introduction. Time, Catastrophe, and Energeia
3. Part I. Catastrophe as an Event

Chapter 1. Catastrophe Remembered: Narrating the Present Catastrophe by Remembering the Past Catastrophe

Chapter 2. Records and Memories: Historical Consciousness and Transcendental Experience in the Japanese Historical Context

Chapter 3. To Be in Front of the Catastrophe: The Moment of Vortex

Chapter 4. Experiencing the Tremble: How Did Volunteers Experience the Catastrophe?

Supplementary Chapter 1. The Faces of Volunteers Speak: The Catastrophe Photographed

Gallery. Volunteers Came with the Wind: Photographs by Kozo Kitagawa

Dialogue 1. Picturing the Wind, Picturing the Light: A Dialogue with Kozo Kitagawa

4. Part II. Catastrophe, Nation State, and the Modernity

Chapter 5. Recovering through the Unknown Dead

Column 1. Museum as a Medium Representing Time and Space

Column 2. How Does the Chinese National History Museum Narrate Recovery?

Chapter 6. Transparent Space, Flamboyant Time: Mourning and Reconstruction in Modern/Post-Modern Japan

Column 3. Tracing Haruki Murakami’s “A Walk to Kobe”

Column 4. What I thought in Aceh, Indonesia: Seven Years after the Great Indian Ocean Tsunami

5. Part III. Catastrophe and Memory

Chapter 7. Tragedy and Narrative: Voices of the Dead

Chapter 8. Whose Memory? To Whom Is Memory Memorized? Die Kindheit in Kobe, or Childhood in Kobe

Dialogue 2. Woods of Folktale and the Narrative of Catastrophe: A Dialogue with Chinatsu Shimizu, Curator of the Sendai Medhiatheque

6. Part IV.Catastrophe Remains in the Environment: Keeping the Past as Monuments, Memorials, and in Sites

Chapter 9. Politics of Emotion: Dramatization of Catastrophe at Memorials

Column 5. What Landscape Tells: Impression at the Site of Auschwitz

Chapter 10. To be with Memory of the Catastrophe: Beyond Aporia of Conservation

Column 6. Visioning Invisible Landscape: Fukushima and Auschwitz

7. Conclusion. Environment, Past, and Future as Seen from the Energeia of History

Supplementary Chapter 2. Naru-becoming and the Energeia of History

8. Epilogue. Tracing Haruki Murakami’s “A Walk to Kobe”again

HISTOIRE DE L'HABITAT IDÉAL, De l'Orient vers l'Occident

• Edited by Augustin Berque
• Translated by Tomoki Toriumi
• Kyoto University Press
• January, 2017
• 470 pages, Hardcover, 6,000yen + tax
• ISBN: 978-4-8140-0051-7

The Wisdom of the Shikwasha — Language, nature and lifestyle interactions in Oku-Yambaru

• Edited by ONISHI Masayuki, MIYAGI Kunimasa
• Kyoto University Press, March 2016
• 6,600 yen + tax
• ISBN: 978-4-8140-0025-8

Siberia, Water and Social Environments in the Warming Far North

• Edited by HIYAMA Tetsuya, FUJIWARA Junko
• Kyoto University Press, March 2015
• 6,500 yen + tax
• ISBN: 978-4-87698-315-5